"I’ve felt a bit exposed" - WWE star Charlotte Flair opens up about her divorce

WWE star Charlotte Flair is opening up about her split from fellow professional wrestler Andrade El Idolo.

The 14-time WWE world champion, whose real name is Ashley Fliehr, sat down for an interview with People Magazine, where she divulged the “weight” lifted off her shoulders since she sat down for an interview on Sherri, where she reflected on her recent divorce for the first time.

“I’ve felt a bit exposed,” Flair, 39, told PEOPLE during an interview on the red carpet at WWE’s Hall of Fame event in Las Vegas. “I think a weight has been lifted off my shoulders because ‘Charlotte’ had to be so perfect and pristine all the time and people couldn't separate the character and who I am in real life,” Flair said.

She went on,

“So, getting all these things that have been really hard for me off of my chest, like, ‘This is who I am, accept me.’ It feels like I don’t have to — not necessarily hide — but I’m not worrying about, you know, ‘What’s going to happen today?’ Or in an interview, ‘Are they going to ask me and I’l have to pivot to something else?’ It’s like, this is the authentic me. And it feels really good.”

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Charlotte Flair's divorce from her husband made headlines earlier this year. While they initially chose to keep things quiet, Flair sat down to speak with television host Sherri Shepherd about her October 2024 split.

At the time, she shared how she felt like a failure in her job and personal life, noting that "the embarrassment of being divorced again" and "being compared" to her father, Ric Flair, was taking a toll on her. She was referencing his split from his fifth wife, Wendy Barlow.

During her recent interview with People Magazine, Charlotte Flair said she's keen on opening up to the world more than she normally does:

“On the opposite side of WrestleMania, I think I will tap more into that and kind of try to bring me — Ashley, the real person — to Charlotte, because I do feel like Charlotte really isn’t, the character I made is not relatable,” Flair explained. “If I could be ‘Charlotte’ in my real life, I would,” Flair said. “In reality, if I wasn’t here right now, I’d be in sweats watching old episodes of Sex and the City. But no, I feel like at this stage in my career I’d like to pull the curtain back a little bit and show them like, hey I’ve been this hardcore, dominant b---- for however many years. But I’d like to also be able to high-five the kids as I walk down the aisle.”

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For the unversed, Charlotte Flair and El Idolo, whose real name is Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza, got hitched back in May 2022. She was previously married to Riki Johnson. They tied the knot in 2010, though they parted ways in 2013. She then married Thomas Latimer in 2013, and they divorced in 2015.

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